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Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:40:38 -0500Noah Friedman
<p>While hosting a gala dinner, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte sang a duet with singer Pilita Corrales "upon the orders of the Commander in Chief&nbsp; of the United States." Duterte has been criticized for alleged extrajudicial killings of thousands as part of the government's crackdown on drugs. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-america-first-ignoring-human-rights-in-asia-2017-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trump didn't press Duterte</a> on the potential human-rights issues during their meeting.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/you-are-the-light-watch-philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-sing-to-president-trump-ikaw-2017-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/stranger-things-cast-singing-gaten-caleb-2017-11Watch the 'Stranger Things' stars sing a Motown medley and show off their surprisingly great vocalshttp://www.businessinsider.com/stranger-things-cast-singing-gaten-caleb-2017-11
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:16:00 -0500Kim Renfro
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<li><strong>The "Stranger Things" stars appeared on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" Wednesday night.</strong></li>
<li><strong>They pre-recorded a skit that told a fictional story of them being in a Motown cover band with Corden prior to being cast on "Stranger Things."</strong></li>
<li><strong>In the skit, Corden is their high school friend (who was held back a few grades). </strong></li>
<li><strong>Corden "auditioned" to play Eleven, but didn't get the part. </strong></li>
<li><strong>But the band gets back together for one real performance.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), and Noah Schnapp (Will) all appear onstage with Corden and break out in song.</strong></li>
<li><strong>The young actors and Corden sing "I Want You Back," "My Girl," and "I'll Be There."</strong></li>
<li><strong>McLaughlin and Matarazzo <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/stranger-things-filming-secrets-and-fun-facts-from-the-set-2017-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">got their start on Broadway</a>, performing in "The Lion King" and "Les Miserables," respectively.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Wolfhard also sings in a band as a side-project, so they're all really talented vocalists.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Watch the video below. The singing performance begins right around 3 minutes in.</strong></li>
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Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:17:24 -0400Conner Blake and Fabiana Buontempo
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Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:10:48 -0400Anjelica Oswald
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<li><strong>Finalist <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/americas-got-talent-deaf-singer-mandy-harvey-finale-performance-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mandy Harvey</a> hit the stage Wednesday night to sing a moving duet with Shania Twain of the country singer's hit song "You're Still the One" for the season 12 finale of "<a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/category/americas-got-talent" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Got Talent</a>."</strong></li>
<li><strong>Harvey, a 29-year-old deaf singer, earned a Golden Buzzer from judge Simon Cowell after her first performance. </strong></li>
<li><strong>She revealed then that she had been deaf since she was 10, but used vibrations to keep the beat. </strong></li>
<li><strong>She finished in fourth place on the NBC talent competition. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Watch the performance below.</strong></li>
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Thu, 25 May 2017 06:57:56 -0400Tom Murray
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5926b8f3dd089501188b4760-1042/screen%20shot%202017-05-25%20at%20114341%20am.png" alt="A huge crowd in Manchester sings 'Don't Look Back in Anger' by Oasis." data-mce-source="Josh Halliday / Twitter" data-mce-caption="A huge crowd in Manchester sings 'Don't Look Back in Anger' by Oasis."></p><p>In her public address on Tuesday, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-arena-terror-theresa-may-speech-after-emergency-cobra-meeting-ariana-grande-2017-5">Prime Minister Theresa May said of Monday's suicide bombing in Manchester</a>: "We experienced the worst of humanity in Manchester last night — but we also saw the best."</p>
<p>Three days after the deadly attack, May's words still ring true as <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/world-tributes-to-the-manchester-attack-2017-5">people from around the world</a> pay tribute to the tragic deaths of 22 people attending an Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena.</p>
<p>There have been <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/images-of-the-manchester-attack-vigil-2017-5">vigils</a>, hugely successful <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/crowdfunding-campaign-for-families-of-manchester-attack-victims-raises-200k-in-4-hours-2017-5">crowdfunding campaigns</a>, and heartfelt messages from the world's most famous <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/celebrity-reactions-to-attack-at-ariana-grande-manchester-concert-2017-5">celebrities and politicians</a>.</p>
<p>Now, a viral video posted on Twitter by Guardian North of England correspondent Josh Halliday is touching the hearts of all those with Manchester in their thoughts:</p>
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<p>The clip shows a huge crowd in Manchester who have gathered for a minute's silence in honour of the victims of Monday's bombing. The applause settles and a lone voice rings out from the crowd. Within seconds, the entire crowd joins the chorus of 'Don't Look Back in Anger' — a hit by famous Manchester-born band, Oasis.</p>
<p>If the video doesn't give you goosebumps, simply nothing will.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-moment-crowd-in-manchester-sings-dont-look-back-in-anger-2017-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/racist-origins-marijuana-prohibition-legalization-2018-2">The racist origins of marijuana prohibition</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-putin-hits-the-right-note-on-moscow-university-visit-2017-1Watch Vladimir Putin sing a song about space exploration to Russian studentshttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-putin-hits-the-right-note-on-moscow-university-visit-2017-1
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:37:00 -0500Patrick Johnston
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5888e2f95124c9e5631c9e30-450-300/putin-hits-the-right-note-on-moscow-university-visit.jpg" alt="FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin makes his annual New Year address to the nation in Moscow, Russia, December 31, 2016. To match Exclusive RUSSIA-KREMLIN/HOSPITAL-PLAN Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo " border="0"></p><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin showed his rarely seen musical side on Wednesday as he sang a brief excerpt from a Soviet-era space exploration song called '14 minutes to the launch' with students at Moscow State University.</p>
<p>Putin was visiting the university as part of Students' Day in Russia when one student began playing a guitar.</p>
<p>Holding a microphone, Putin sang "On the dusty paths of distant planets, our tracks will remain," drawing a round of applause from those in attendance.</p>
<p>The song was written in 1960 and became synonymous with Yuri Gagarin's space journey in 1961. It was also performed in space a year later by Russian cosmonauts and remains popular with the public.</p>
<p>It is not the first time that Putin, a judo black belt better known for his macho posturing, has sung in public.</p>
<p>In 2010, when serving as Russian prime minister, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo">he sang 'Blueberry Hill'</a> at a children's charity event after performing the opening notes on a piano.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught singing to himself after he announced his resignation, which will go into effect this Wednesday evening, on July 13, 2016.</span></p>
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Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:00:00 -0400Erin Brodwin
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/576c247e91058423008cb263-1367/screen shot 2014-11-20 at 2.24.58 pm.png" alt="pitch perfect 2" data-mce-source="YouTube/TheEllenShow" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBwOYQd21TY" /></p><p>Imagine stepping into a friend's car, her favorite playlist pumping, only to be immersed in the sounds of hundreds of clanging pots and pans.</p>
<p>To an estimated 4% of the world, that's what the stuff we call music sounds like.</p>
<p>These people are <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627301005803">tone-deaf, a disorder more accurately called congenital amusia</a>. People who are really tone-deaf aren't just bad at karaoke: They can't pick out differences in pitch, the quality of music we're referring to when we say something is "low" or "high."</p>
<p>By studying these people, scientists are learning some fascinating things about the brain, including how we process and experience sound as well as&nbsp;what aspects of this ability may be genetic.</p>
<h2>A world that sounds completely different</h2>
<p>Let's say you don't have amusia, meaning you're not tone deaf. Now picture yourself spending the afternoon listening to your neighbor practice the piano. In general, you could probably say whether the note you just heard was higher or lower than the one you heard before that, right?</p>
<p>Well, people who are tone-deaf can't do that.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/55ddfd706bb3f7ae6548cb57-1972/pitch perfect 2 richard cartwright.jpg" alt="Pitch Perfect 2 Richard Cartwright.JPG" data-mce-source="Richard Cartwright/Universal" />We talked to Marion Cousineau, a researcher at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research at the University of Montreal. She spent years working with people with amusia (or "amusics") in the lab to get a sense of what the world sounds like to them.</p>
<p>She explained that it's not that amusics' brains cannot detect differences in pitch, but rather that they can't consciously process the difference in the same way non-amusics can.</p>
<p>Cousineau says that each person she's talked to describes their amusia &mdash; which they detect using <a href="http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/amusia-general/?stage=1&amp;PHPSESSID=d0aioii2h7f06hc3lerffqln01">an online test</a> &mdash; differently. Where some people hear clanging pots and pans, for example, others hear beautiful sounds.</p>
<p>Once, when Cousineau had a writer visit her lab to write a story on amusia, he found out he was amusic himself. He had no idea. "He was crazy about music and was constantly going to shows and concerts," Cousineau told Business Insider. "Then he took the test and found out he was amusic."</p>
<h2><strong>Amusia runs in families</strong></h2>
<p>Exactly what causes tone-deafness is still somewhat mysterious, but researchers are finding some fascinating clues.</p>
<p>From studying families, for example, scientists have been able to conclude that <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950825/">it's hereditary</a>, meaning that if you have it, chances are higher that your children will too.</p>
<p>We also know that amusia is a type of <a href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/agnosia/agnosia.htm">agnosia</a>, a word derived from Greek roots that essentially means "not knowing." Agnosia is a word used to describe a condition in which there is a disconnect between what you're seeing, hearing, or feeling, and your previous knowledge about that experience.&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>Brains that don't know they're tone-deaf</strong></h2>
<p>A <a href="http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/132/5/1277.long">2009 study</a> got a bit closer to telling us what's happening in the brain of a tone-deaf person when she or he listens to music and hears noise instead. For that study, two groups of volunteers &mdash; one with amusia and one without &mdash; were hooked up to an EEG so researchers could take a look at some of the electrical activity in different areas of their brains.</p>
<p>They had both groups listen to a series of notes. One of the notes was out of key.</p>
<p>Each time the out-of-tune notes were played, the <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-tone/">researchers saw specific and similar activity</a> across the brains of both groups. In other words, it appeared that amusic or not, everyone's brains were at least picking up on the mismatched sounds. But while both the non-amusics and amusics displayed similar brain activity in the first few milliseconds after hearing the sound, only the non-amusics displayed another smattering of activity a few hundred milliseconds later. This second burst of activity in people without tone deafness, the scientists reasoned, suggested that only the brains of people who were not tone deaf were communicating the harsh tune to&nbsp;a higher brain area, thereby making them aware that they'd heard it.</p>
<p>In other words, the researchers suspect, while the brains of both groups had identified the harsh tune on some level, amusics were not <em>aware</em> that they'd done so.</p>
<p>"Their brains were picking it up," said Cousineau, "but they couldn't say there was a change."</p>
<p>Here's an image of brain activity in someone who&nbsp;is&nbsp;not tone-deaf&nbsp;(A) and someone who is (B):</p>
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<p>This idea has been bolstered by <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23616587">several</a> <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393214004515">other</a>, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.12931/full">more recent</a> <a href="http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/05/21/cercor.bhq094.long">studies</a> that suggest that amusics have weaker links between fronto-temporal brain areas (one of the regions that we rely on to think critically and solve problems) and posterior auditory areas, which are important for processing sound.</p>
<p>What this growing body of work has shown is that in amusics, many aspects of the brain involved in experiencing music are working just as they should. But somewhere up the chain of command &mdash; between hearing a tune and processing it &mdash; something goes awry.</p>
<p>And this is responsible for the vastly different musical world that tone-deaf people experience.</p>
<p>"A lot of the people who'd come into the lab were told all their lives that they can't sing, that there's something wrong with them and that it's their fault," said Cousineau. "But it isn't their fault at all, and that's what we were able to share with them."</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/forgetting-is-a-crucial-part-of-memory-2015-3" >Scientists have finally figured out why we remember some things and forget others</a></strong></p>
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Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:00:00 -0400Jacquelyn Smith
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/56eb1a3e9105842b008b7177-2918-1459/ap_762316386851.jpg" alt="Taylor Swift" data-mce-source="AP" /></p><p></p>
<p>Can you recall what you ate for lunch last week? Do you remember the names of most people you meet? Do you know every word to every song you've ever loved?&nbsp;If so, you probably have a great memory &mdash; and this is a very valuable trait in the job market, since&nbsp;many jobs require workers to memorize&nbsp;words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.</p>
<p>We recently combed through the <a href="http://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/result/2.A.1.e">Occupational Information Network (O*NET)</a>, a US Department of Labor database that compiles detailed information on hundreds of jobs, to find the positions <span>with a high "memory importance" score. </span><span>We then looked</span><span> at salary data on the US </span><a href="http://www.bls.gov/">Bureau of Labor Statistics website</a><span> to see how much each position pays.</span></p>
<p>O*NET ranks how important "<a href="https://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/result/1.A.1.d.1">the ability to remember information</a>" is in any job, assigning each a score&nbsp;between one&nbsp;and 100. Positions that require a lot of memorization receive a higher score.</p>
<p>Here are 18&nbsp;jobs with a memory-importance score&nbsp;of 53&nbsp;or higher:</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/high-paying-jobs-for-people-who-love-to-negotiate-2016-3" >21 high-paying jobs for people who love to negotiate</a></strong></p>
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<p><h2 class="p1"><strong>Radio or television announcer</strong></h2>
<p class="p1"><strong>Average&nbsp;salary:</strong><span> <span>$44,030</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><strong>Memory-</strong>importance score:</strong>&nbsp;53</p>
<p class="p1"><span>Announcers present music, news, and sports and may provide commentary or interview guests about these or other important topics.</span></p></p>
<br/><br/><p><h2 class="p1"><strong>Adult basic- and secondary-education and literacy teacher or instructor</strong></h2>
<p class="p1"><strong>Average&nbsp;salary:</strong><span> <span>$52,830</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><strong>Memory-</strong>importance score:</strong> 53</p>
<p class="p1">Adult basic- and secondary-education and literacy teachers and instructors&nbsp;t<span>each or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in remedial-education classes, preparatory classes for the General Educational Development test, literacy, or English as a Second Language.</span></p></p>
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<p><h2 class="p1"><strong>Elementary-school teacher</strong></h2>
<p class="p1"><strong>Average&nbsp;salary:</strong><span> <span>$56,830</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><strong>Memory-</strong>importance score:</strong> 53</p>
<p class="p1"><span>Elementary-school teachers teach&nbsp;students basic academic, social, and other formative skills in public or private schools at the elementary level.</span></p></p>
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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:25:03 -0500Jeremy Dreyfuss
<p><span>Every year, thousands of people flock to the town of Paraty in Brazil to attend the&nbsp;<span>Bloco da Lama Carnival. Everyone lathers their bodies in thick mud as they sing and dance by water.</span></span></p>
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Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:33:00 -0500Colin Campbell
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5697d09fe6183e1d008b9690-1441-721/screen%20shot%202016-01-14%20at%2011.44.40%20am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016 01 14 at 11.44.40 AM" data-mce-source="YouTube/screenshot" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBJLacBcZg&amp;t=51m20s"></p><p>Real-estate mogul Donald Trump's Wednesday-night campaign rally featured a song and dance performance from three young girls.</p>
<p>The trio, who called themselves the "USA Freedom Kids," sang about America's greatness and what Trump will do for the country if he wins the 2016 presidential race.</p>
<p>"Cowardice, are you serious? Apologies for freedom — I can't handle this! When freedom rings, answer the call!" they sang. <span>"On your feet, stand up tall! Freedom's on our shoulders, USA! Enemies of freedom face the music. Come on boys, take them down!"</span></p>
<p>They continued: "President Donald Trump knows how to make America great. Deal from strength or get crushed every time."</p>
<h3>Watch the incredible performance below:</h3>
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Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:00:59 -0500Colin Campbell
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5697d09fe6183e1d008b9690-1441-721/screen%20shot%202016-01-14%20at%2011.44.40%20am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016 01 14 at 11.44.40 AM" data-mce-source="YouTube/screenshot" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBJLacBcZg&amp;t=51m20s"></p><p>Real-estate mogul Donald Trump's Wednesday-night campaign rally featured a song and dance performance from three young girls.</p>
<p>The trio, who called themselves the "USA Freedom Kids," sang about America's greatness and what Trump will do for the country if he wins the 2016 presidential race.</p>
<p>"Cowardice, are you serious? Apologies for freedom — I can't handle this! When freedom rings, answer the call!" they sang. <span>"On your feet, stand up tall! Freedom's on our shoulders, USA! Enemies of freedom face the music. Come on boys, take them down!"</span></p>
<p>They continued: "President Donald Trump knows how to make America great. Deal from strength or get crushed every time."</p>
<h3>Watch the incredible performance below:</h3>
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Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:14:00 -0500Melia Robinson
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<p>There's nothing like the holiday season to bring people together. That includes the tech elite.</p>
<p>Tuesday, a cappella groups made up of employees from Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Airbnb united on stage for the third annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/489249011257933/">Techapella Holiday Concert</a>. The performance, which is free to the public, gives members of Silicon Valley a chance to set aside any industry rivalries and celebrate a common joy.</p>
<p>"We know [singing] isn't part of our job, but it's more or less an extra curricular activity," says Laolee Xiong, a founding member of Facebook's group, The Vocal Network, and an environmental, health, and safety t<span>raining programs manager. "We're more than software developers and engineers — we love to sing, too."</span> </p>
<p><span></span>Tech Insider went backstage at Techapella to see how the event comes together.</p><h3>When we arrived at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, California, Facebook's group —The Vocal Network — was warming up.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3> Their fearless founder, Laolee Xiong (right), conferences with some of the other tech companies' a cappella group leaders on stage. </h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>Techapella began as a sort of faux a cappella battle. When Xiong left Google for Facebook in 2013, he told his former Google colleagues that if his new gig didn't have its own a cappella group, he would create one.</h3>
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Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:44:00 -0500A.C. Fowler
<p>Video of a 7-year-old singing the Australian national anthem while battling hiccups has gone viral. The video, posted by the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4URW7871xPZrbeiPREOldA">Australian Baseball League</a>,&nbsp;shows Ethan Hall pushing through to finish the song despite having hiccups from the first line. Baseball players are holding back laughter. Hall perseveres and finishes the song to an applauding audience.</p>
<p>After making it through the national anthem, Hall greets the ball players, giving them high fives.</p>
<p>"What a lot of courage from the youngster. I mean he could have completely fallen apart," one of the game's announcer's said after Hall finished singing.</p>
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<p>In the Gangnam District in Seoul, over 1,500 people attend the <a href="http://www.defcompany.com/defcompany/index.php">Def Dance Skool</a>, where students learn how to become K-Pop stars the likes of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/psy-after-gangnam-style-2013-7">Psy</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GIRLSGENERATION">Girls' Generation</a>. Take a look at what it's like inside a K-Pop school.</p>
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Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:26:31 -0500Guia Marie Del Prado
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5637c711dd0895610a8b4640-1333-1000/students college a cappella singing.jpg" alt="Students College A Cappella Singing" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Matt Rourke" data-mce-caption="Music director Jasmine Barksdale and other members of Off the Beat a cappella group rehearse Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia." /></p><p>If you want to make new friends, you might want to go to the karaoke bar at happy hour.</p>
<p>According to a new study published in the Royal Society Open Science Journal, singing with others has a profound power in bringing people together quickly, especially at first.</p>
<p>"Singing is found in all human societies and can be performed to some extent by the vast majority of people," study researcher Eiluned Pearce, of Oxford University, <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-10-28-singing%E2%80%99s-secret-power-ice-breaker-effect-1">said in a press release</a>. "It's been suggested that singing is one of the ways in which we build social cohesion when there isn't enough time to establish one-to-one connections between everyone in a group."</p>
<p>By following seven adult education classes, the researchers found that people who attended adult singing classes made friends faster than students in creative writing and crafts classes.</p>
<p>While all the students in the classes felt equally connected to each other by the end of the 7-month study, the students in the singing classes felt closer faster than anyone else.</p>
<p>That's because singing has a distinct advantage over the other activities, according to the study. The researchers wrote that singing "may have evolved as a mechanism of social bonding. Previous research showed that singing may be associated with increases in bodily chemicals like oxytocin and endorphins, which seem to aid in social bonding and improved moods.</p>
<p>Singing is also a group activity with everyone working together toward a common goal, whereas the crafts and creative writing required students to work on individual projects.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5637c711dd0895610a8b4641-1995-1496/103250154.jpg" alt="karaoke" data-mce-source="Ian Gavan/Getty" />The study followed four singing classes, two crafts classes, and one creative writing class over the course of seven months, all of which met for two hours weekly. The participants took surveys at three different point throughout the study &mdash; at one month, three months, and seven months, to describe how close they felt to their classmates.</p>
<p>They were also given a pain tolerance test &mdash; the participants had a blood pressure cuff slowly inflated around their arms until they said that it had become "very uncomfortable." An increase in pain threshold, the scientists contend, implies a higher level of circulating endorphins, though they didn't actually study blood levels of these hormones.</p>
<p>It's important to remember that this is a very small study, with just 84 participants in the singing classes and 51 in the writing and crafts classes. The study's sample size, which skewed female, also declined over time because of people dropping out.</p>
<p>"Really close relationships still depend on interactions between individuals or much smaller groups, but this study shows singing can kick start the bonding process," Pearce said. "This is the first clear evidence that singing is a powerful means of bonding a whole group simultaneously."</p>
<p>But when suggesting a karaoke night, keep in mind that not everyone enjoys singing.&nbsp;The study only followed people who already enjoy these activities and willingly participated in the classes, so the results don't necessarily apply to everyone.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-make-friends-singing-karaoke-2015-10#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/scientifically-proven-ways-flirt-better-2015-10">The scientifically proven way to flirt better </a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/singing-is-a-great-icebreaker-for-adults-2015-10Psychologists may have discovered the best way to make new friends as an adulthttp://www.businessinsider.com/singing-is-a-great-icebreaker-for-adults-2015-10
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:09:00 -0400Shana Lebowitz
<p class="p1"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5633c921bd86ef20008c62c7-4139-3104/singers.jpg" alt="singers" data-mce-source="Flickr/Stefan Karpiniec" data-link="https://www.flickr.com/photos/29585346@N07/6553031375/" /></p><p><a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/11/americans-circle-confidantes-has-shrunk-two-people">Research has found</a> that adults today have fewer friends than they did in the 1980s, and that more people say they have no one to discuss important stuff with.</p>
<p class="p2">Cue the violins.</p>
<p class="p2">No really, cue them &mdash; and sing along. A <a href="http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/10/150221">new, small study</a> suggests that singing is an effective way to make new friends because it helps us bond quickly with others.</p>
<p class="p2">For the study, led by Eiluned Pearce, Ph.D., at Oxford University, researchers looked at participants, ages 18 to 83, in adult education classes organized by the Workers' Education Association in the UK. Eighty-four participants were enrolled in one of four singing classes; 51 participants were enrolled in one of two creative crafts classes or a creative writing class.</p>
<p class="p2">Over a period of seven months, the classes met weekly. During the first, third, and final months, researchers asked participants to indicate how close they felt to their classmates.</p>
<p class="p2">Results showed something surprising. Although participants in <em>all</em> the classes felt closer to their classmates by the study's end, participants in the singing classes developed that closeness much more quickly.</p>
<p class="p2">As for why exactly singing facilitates fast group bonding, the researchers say one possible reason is that everyone does it at the same time. Compare that to creative writing or crafting, where everyone is working on an individual project. Another potential cause, according to the researchers, is that singing involves muscular effort, which triggers the release of certain molecules that can make us happier and more willing to cooperate.</p>
<p class="p2">The takeaway here is that singing can be a great icebreaker among large groups of strangers (remember office karaoke night?), which can facilitate individual friendships down the line.</p>
<p class="p3">"Really close relationships still depend on interactions between individuals or much smaller groups," Pearce said <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-10-28-singing%E2%80%99s-secret-power-ice-breaker-effect-1">in a release</a>, "but this study shows singing can kick start the bonding process."</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-make-friends-as-an-adult-2014-12?op=1" >9 Research-Backed Strategies For Making Friends When You're A Grown-Up</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:08:00 -0400Lauren F Friedman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/55f93f81dd08952a3a8b4704-932-699/screen%20shot%202013-04-23%20at%203.37.18%20pm.png" alt="Lana Del Rey singing" data-mce-source="Angelika Warmuth/AP"></p><p>Even your most honest friends might be too kind to break it to you: Every time you sing along with the car radio or belt out a karaoke song, those notes you're singing are way, way off.</p>
<p>Or: maybe they're not. Maybe your pitch is perfect, and you physically wince when you hear someone else singing flat.</p>
<p>No need to guess which category you're in. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health, offers an online version of the definitive test to figure it out: the <a href="http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/pages/dtt.aspx">Distorted Tunes Test</a>, which we first spotted <a href="https://www.Reddit.com/r/science/comments/3l0zxo/nih_test_your_sense_of_pitch_note_takes_patience/">on reddit</a>.</p>
<p>Pitch is roughly defined as the "highness or lowness of a sound," and NICD <a href="http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx">notes</a> that 2-5% of people in the US seem to have some trouble perceiving it. Pitch is about more than singing on- or off-key: It is "one of the primary auditory sensations and plays a defining role in music, speech," and even some languages, notes a 2012 study in the <a href="http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/39/13335.full">Journal of Neuroscience</a>.</p>
<p>Test your pitch perception by playing the 26 very short sound clips below, and listening to hear whether these common tunes go off-key. You can also take the test <a href="http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/pages/dtt.aspx">directly on the NIH site</a>. (Note: The test is easier to take on a laptop or desktop computer.)</p>
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<p>Tennis champion Serena Williams was joined by Broadway and television star Alan Cumming and "Orange is the New Black" regular Laverne Cox at Delta's OPEN Mic night. They performed karaoke songs ahead of the official beginning of the 2015 US OPEN Tennis tournament. </p>
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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:54:00 -0400Sarah Fecht
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/553fdb7f69beddd8540ff130-800-802/screen%20shot%202015-04-28%20at%203.08.12%20pm.png" border="0" alt="MRI singing man"></p><p>The longest half-hour of my life was spent in an MRI machine, getting my knee scanned after an athletic injury.</p>
<p>If you don't lie perfectly still, the image could blur and you might have to do it all over again. Of course, the more you concentrate on not moving, the more you want to move. Then the magnets make your muscles twitch and it feels even more like torture.<a href="http://www.popsci.com/see-inside-guys-head-he-sings-if-i-only-had-brain-video?con&amp;dom=newscred&amp;src=syndication"></a></p>
<p>Besides being uncomfortable for patients, the MRI's slowness limits what doctors can do with it.</p>
<p>For example, Aaron Johnson, who studies speech and hearing at the University of Illinois, wanted to see whether singing would strengthen the vocal cords of elderly people, giving them stronger voices.</p>
<p>To know if the training was helping, he needed to see what was going on in peoples' throats before and after they sang a few tunes.</p>
<p>So Johnson and his colleagues developed a new <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.25302/abstract?con&amp;dom=newscred&amp;src=syndication">image processing method</a> that can make a normal MRI machine — which captures images at 10 frames per second — generate images at 100 frames per second. It is now the fastest MRI technique in the world.</p>
<p>The the technical explanation as to how the team made this superfast MRI includes phrases such as "spiral navigators" and "sparsity constraints". Here's how <a href="http://gizmodo.com/a-new-high-speed-mri-technique-is-fast-enough-to-record-1699523338?con&amp;dom=newscred&amp;src=syndication"><em>Gizmodo</em></a> summarizes it:</p>
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<p>What <span style="color: #000000;">the </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">team essentially did was find a way to generate additional frames from the image data the MRI machine was already capturing. By focusing on smaller regions of the overall image they were able to capture motion data at higher frame rates. And then using that data they were able to reconstruct additional in-between images which boosted the frame rate significantly.</span></p>
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<p>In the delightful video below, we see Johnson himself singing "If I Only Had A Brain." As he sings, we can watch the muscles in his neck, jaw, tongue, and lips work together to produce sound.</p>
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<p class="embed-spacer">We asked Johnson whether the technology could be used to image a purring cat, but he thinks it wouldn't work. "Even though this technique measures motion, I had to remain quite still, which is why the top of my head (and my brain) are stationary during the video," he wrote in a email.</p>
<p>"Also, the machine is quite loud during imaging. My cat certainly wouldn't sit still and purr while in an MRI machine!"</p>
<p>But the superfast MRI technique has a lot of useful (and probably more important) applications.</p>
<p>In the future, Johnson says other researchers could use it to investigate how speech sounds are produced in different languages and how physical abnormalities, such as a cleft palate, impact speech and swallowing. The method could also be applied to other moving body parts--such as the beating heart--to give a more dynamic look inside the human body.</p>
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